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Don't expect miracles

The guru's guidance follows the soul across lifetimes until liberation. Attachment to worldly plans and delays obstruct the path. Promising to follow the guru and then abandoning the path yields no miracles, only prolonged waiting in other realms. The guru's initial blessing and shelter are permanent, but purification of vast karma requires many lives. Do not demand swift liberation or expect experiences; this leads to psychic illness. Through a story, a disciple repeatedly postpones following his guru due to worldly attachments—first his son's marriage, then debts, then guarding the house. He is reborn as a calf, a dog, and a snake, still attached to his family. The guru continually offers guidance. Finally, the guru places the disciple's soul as a worm on a lotus offered to Vishnu, granting liberation. The guru relentlessly leads the soul upward despite worsening karma.

"Do not expect that in some days, a few months, or a few years you will get a miracle. There is only one miracle: that you will go away."

"The path to the Brahmaloka that will lead you once began when Gurudev put his hand on your head. That is called the shelter of the guru, and that will protect the disciple till the end."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Alakpurījī Mahādev Kī Caitanya, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Caitanya, Viśvaguru Mahāmandirāj Sarasvatī Sāī Maīśkaraṇandajī Gurudev Kī Caitanya, Namo Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya Namo Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya. Namo Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah... Śivāya. Om Hara Hara Bho Namah Śivāya, Om Hara Hara Bho Namah Śivāya, Om Hara Hara Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om... Namah Śivāya Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya,... Om Namah Śivāya. Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya,... Om Namaḥ Śivāya. Om Śānti Śānti. Attachment to worldly life—to your property, your house, everything—is one thing. But how far does Gurudev follow the soul to bring that soul of the bhakta, the devotee, the disciple? To bring the soul to the Brahmaloka takes time. The biggest mistake a disciple or bhakta can make is to say, "First, okay, I will do it tomorrow. I will do it day after tomorrow." Sometimes we say, today we are distributing chocolate after satsaṅg, okay? So if children want, then they can be silent. Otherwise, they can go outside and have ice cream. So you think, "I will do it next year when this work is done." Then you say neither no nor yes. What happens to that soul? Second, when you once promised, took the mantras, and entered into the divine light of the Master, then after some time you give up and go away. Do not expect that in some days, a few months, or a few years you will get a miracle. There is only one miracle: that you will go away. That miracle means you got no miracles. So do not expect that you go to a doctor and the doctor gives you an injection and now you feel better. Such a soul has to wait long in the waiting list of other lokas. There are many, many different lokas. You speak of hell, heaven, and many others in the fire, etc. In Christianity also, that is exactly taken from what we call the Purāṇas. The writing of the Purāṇas is many, many thousands of years old. And this new religion, which they have accepted for a few thousand years, is a good one. We should accept good, and we should not accept bad. Therefore, when you hear many disciples saying, "I was with that master, I didn’t get any experiences, he didn’t give me anything," know this: he gave you a blessing, and that blessing will remain till the end. The path to the Brahmaloka that will lead you once began when Gurudev put his hand on your head. That is called the shelter of the guru, and that will protect the disciple till the end. But do not think that it will be in this year or next year or in this life. Can you think of your karma in this life? What have you done? How many things? How many times have you married and divorced? How many times were you with one person and then gave up? And how many times were you angry? Many, many things. There is no way out anymore, and finally they seek the shelter of the holy saint. When there is no way out, there is no way to go anywhere, so be happy that now the purification took place. But there are tons and tons and turns of the load there on your soul to dig out. It takes time. But when one says yes, then it will bring you there. But when you have negative thoughts, you go away and you try to say it was not good, this, this... then also you have parallel difficulties. As it is said in the Guru Gītā, you listen word by word, therefore do not expect any miracles. And if you want to expect miracles, then you will be psychically ill. Emotion, depression, illusion, wrong imagination—do not say, do not believe that Swāmījī will give me liberation today. Of course, I can give you liberation. I will tell Pārvatī, "Send this person away, hurry home." That I can do now, but I will not do this. So, ages and ages, lives and lives, but be sure that Gurudev will not let you be lost in darkness. So Gurujī told one story. There was one farmer who had a small farmhouse, a little land. It was about two to three kilometers from the village, and he was living there. His wife died. She had one son, so father and son were working in the field one day. One day, a saint, a sādhu, was walking by that farmhouse. He felt there is some soul longing for something. So he went to that farm, and there was a man about fifty years old, and he was so happy to see the Swāmījī. He quickly ran and brought a nice bed or chair to sit on. He brought him nice milk to drink. That time there was no coffee and no tea, you know. Either yogurt, lassi, milk, or juice, etc. And that farmer told Swamiji, "Please stay here some days." So Swamiji said, "Okay, I have no problem. I have no duties, I am not bound to anything. I can stay. I have no fixed time to go somewhere, seminar, this, this, this." That’s called prapañca. So he stayed there. Every evening there was a satsaṅg, and that farmer and his son, both of them were listening, that’s all. And Swamījī himself was the third one. So the farmer said, "Please stay more." The neighbors were coming. Well, one day, Swāmījī decided, "Now I will go." The farmer said, "Guru Dev, you are my Guru. You gave me mantra, everything. You create so much attachment. I am so much attached to you, Guru Dev. I can’t survive without you." The Guru said, "No problem. I will always be with you." The farmer said, "Yes, but I would like to go with you." Gurujī said, "Okay, let’s go. Yes, but, there is now, but," That Bolgaya, but I will go. But still, my feeling, my attachment, my sorrow towards my son—he did not marry yet. I will organize his marriage, and then, Gurudev, I will go. In old times, people were thinking very deeply about families. To which family should my daughter marry, or my son should marry to which daughter? That time, people were more happy. Now they are marrying every day and go away every day. Now it’s... That’s why all mankind is suffering. It doesn’t matter, boy or girl, they are suffering and getting more and more problems and difficulties. That’s it. He said, "Gurudev, when my son is married, then I will go." After a few years, by chance, Gurujī came, and he was very happy. And then Gurujī said, "After two days, I’m going. Oh, your son is married?" "Yes, Gurujī. My son is married, and I’m so happy and lucky that my daughter-in-law, she’s Lakshmi, she’s like a goddess. Since she came into my house, when she stepped into my house, Gurudev changed everything so positively." You must know, when you are properly married, you are not marrying for sex; you are marrying for a happy, healthy... peaceful, divine life. If you don’t find it, doesn’t matter. Don’t marry, don’t go into the hell. Every day I’m getting letters, mostly all consultations about the husband or the wife. Yes, but you don’t think? Don’t you at least think you should educate your children and take care of that? So Gurujī said, "Then let’s go." "Yes, Gurudev, that’s my burning desire, but Gurudev, my son..." is alone. And you know, if you are a householder, you are a married person, you must see a child. Otherwise, I will be in the Petraloka, where I will bring the Paṇḍitjī there. My dear, it is the story. This is a fairy tale, but it happens so. He said to his wife, daughter-in-law, this is a blessing. What means "putravatī bhava"? See, may I bless you for a beautiful son. That old man was so happy, so happy. After three years, Gurujī came again, and he said, "Oh, I am so happy. But you know, Guruji, the wedding cost so much money. Yeah, he still was, son was not there, so I borrowed the money from others, so I have to give back. Otherwise, my son, he is so innocent, and people will come and take all the property away." That’s why now people don’t marry in the old tradition. It costs them only a few crowns to go and sign it, and then you are married. It’s only a piece of paper. You were married already long ago. That is not a marriage, a human marriage. So don’t cry, don’t ask Paṇḍitjī anymore that you want to marry Paṇḍitjī. Panditjī is already married. Yes, this is stupid thinking. When it is in your kismet, it will come. Such a husband, who is like a rising sun, or my wife enters your house, bringing wealth, harmony, prosperity, and divinity. That is a wife. That is the son of the husband. There are, nowadays there are. But you spoiled it already before. The watermelon is still not ripe, and you cut it off. So, meanwhile, the old man died, and Gurujī came again. The farmer’s son came and said, "Gurujī, my father died." Gurujī said, that is life. Guruji was meditating where the soul is gone. So what happened is that the soul came as a cow’s calf, a beautiful calf. And he said, "Oh, he speaks with that." It is that’s called sūkṣma, the astral soul to soul. "Now, do you want to come with me?" Gurū Dev doesn’t know any guru in the whole world. Thank you. But still, I have to help my son to pay back all the debt. He went. Master went after five years. Swamiji came and said, "How is your talatko?" It was beautiful. He said, "Master Gurudev, it was beautiful. And after one and a half years, I was using it for working, for harvesting, but where is he? He was working so much without telling him, he was running, so one day he fell down and died." Well, as God’s wish, he meditated again, and there was a little puppy, a little dog puppy, moving its tail in front of Gurujī. Kuteki John now he dissolved, went down to the dog. Said, "Now you want to come with me?" "Guru Dev, only my wish is this: what a great Gurudev, you always take care of me." "Then let’s go with me." "Yes, Gurudev. This is my burning desire, but you know, I work so hard, and so I got so much crops. I harvest a lot of crops, I pay back everything, but still, this my son and his wife... They sleep so deep, and thieves can come and steal everything. Gurudeva, whole night without closing eyes, I am watching, guarding. No one can enter in the house." Guruji said, "Okay, when will you go with me?" "Guruji, when I have one wish. To see my grandson, then my stairs are golden stairs to heaven. Gurudev, it is like a lift." Gurujī went. One night, the thieves came, and the thieves said, "We don’t go in this house, but always this dog is making noise. He wakes up all, so we have no chance to steal something." They took a gun and killed him. After one year, one or two years, his son got a son. A beautiful little baby, it was about three to four months old. The farmer, his son was working in the field, and his wife went to bring the water, was drinking water from the water well, and this beautiful new child was in the cradle. Like Krishna, nowadays you don’t have a cradle. You are putting the child always here, and the child goes like this, and there is no oxygen. It’s not good to have a child like this here. Some people think, "Oh, on the heart, this is not good. The child needs more oxygen." There, someone told me it was in Russia. Someone got this technique that the child should be here, and the mother went somewhere for a walk or somewhere in winter, minus 30 degrees, and the mother was... wrapping the child like this, and the child was crying and crying, and she went to the doctor, and when she opened the cloth, the child got oxygen. So the doctor said, "He’s not crying from pain; he’s crying for the oxygen." So don’t hang your child backside, and don’t hang like this. When your backside is hanging, sometimes your neck is hanging like this. My dear children, learn how to get a child, but take care of the child first. Learn how to get a child. These girls don’t know; suddenly they are surprised they are pregnant. Before getting a child, you must have two days of training, or two years of training, from your mother, from your mother-in-law, from your doctor, from a nurse, everything: what to do, how to do. Otherwise, come to me. That, I will not tell. So, this child was in the cradle. The mothers went to bring the water, about 50 meters away. The father, the young father, was working in the field, about 100 meters away. The child was in the cradle, and the sun was rising, a strong sun. It was on the child’s face, and the child felt unpleasant. That old man, which was a dog, became a snake under the treasure where the money is. So in the life of the snake, the cobra, that grandfather felt very pity. My grandchild, suffering from the sunlight. The cobra came and put his head like this. And smiling, my grandson, my grandson, how Cobra is smiling, and tongue, there is a love, attachment, and how the Gurudev is following step by step. The mother came, she had a pot on her head, and she saw the cobra on her son. Now she threw the pot down, she was screaming, and the cobra said, "Why are you so angry?" She said, "It’s my grandson." The farmer came, young boy, and he brought a big, long stick, and he was beating the cobra. Gurudev first came, and he saw this. He said, "Please wait, wait... wait. Don’t kill him like this. I will give the Gayatrī Mantra so he will get mokṣa." He said, "Gurudev, the biggest Gāyatrī Mantra is my stick. Soon, I will give him liberation." Gurudev said, "Wait, wait." Gurujī caught that cobra in hand with astral body talking. "Farmer, bhakta, now can you go with me? See what is your condition now. In life, in the form of the cobra." That farmer said, "Swāmījī, what have I done to you? Why are you all the time behind me? If they kill or not, they are my family. Please, let me be alone." Guruji said, "Now I will not talk to him because he’s already gone, the soul gone to the reptilian." This is the lowest form of life. No legs, no hands, no ears. Well, so that died, the snake died. Gurujī is following his soul. So that became like a worm, which became like a moth. Early morning, Brahmamūrti, before sunrise, the Apsarās, the angels, they used to bring to Bhagavān Viṣṇu lotus flowers for the worship of Bhagavān Viṣṇu. So what Gurujī did, he made the miracle. So that worm, the mud, was sitting on the lotus flower. Gurujī put it in the lotus flower. And in the evening, the lotus flower closed. The angels came at four o’clock in the morning, and they took that one lotus for the pūjā to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. And as it came to the lotus feet of Bhagavān Viṣṇu, the lotus petals opened, and this man looked to Bhagavān Viṣṇu and got mokṣa. So how the Gurudev leads your soul further and further, even when your karma is getting worse and worse, but one day it will be that you will get into the Brahmaloka. Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Satya Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devādi Deva, Alakpurī Jī Mahādev Kī, Devādi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādev Kī, Ārādhi Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya.

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